[Mailman-Users] [newbie]Need help with mailman on Linux

[David Smead]

Brian,

It's a permission problem with the mailman user.  The install instructions
say what to do to get those permission right.

Sincerely,

David Smead
http://www.amplepower.com.
http://www.ampletech.com.

On Sun, 21 May 2000, Brian wrote:

> Hello all!
> 
> 	I followed the instructions for mailman, set up "test" and then
> opened my web browser to find this error message:
> 
> --------------------------------Snip-----------------------------------
> 	Bug in Mailman version 1.1
> 
> We're sorry, we hit a bug!
> 
> If you would like to help us identify the problem, please email a copy of
> this page to the webmaster for this site with a description of what
> happened. Thanks! 
> 
> Traceback:
> 
> 
> Traceback (innermost last):
>   File "/home/mailman/scripts/driver", line 89, in run_main
>     immediate=1)
>   File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Logging/StampedLogger.py", line 48, in
> __init__
>     Logger.__init__(self, category, nofail, immediate)
>   File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Logging/Logger.py", line 40, in __init__
>     self.__get_f()
>   File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Logging/Logger.py", line 63, in __get_f
>     reraise()
>   File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Logging/Logger.py", line 55, in __get_f
>     f = self.__fp = open(self.__filename, 'a+')
> IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home/mailman/logs/error'
> 
> 
> -----------------------------/snip---------------------------------
> 
> 
> I am not a python programmer but, reading these entries, I think that
> mailman may not have the proper permissions to write to either syslog or
> /home/mailman/logs??
> 
> Is this a correct assumption?? If so, how can I fix this? 
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> 					Brian
> 
> 
> 
> ---------------------------------
> Brian Gilman		
> Scientific Programmer
> WhiteHead Institute 
> MIT
> 
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